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Title:
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NECESSITY OF APPLYING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TOWARDS URBAN HEALTH EQUITY |
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Author(s):
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Marjan Khobreh, Fazel Ansari Ch, Sara Nasiri |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-24-3 |
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Editors:
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Sandeep Krishnamurthy, Gurmit Singh and Maggie McPherson |
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Year:
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2010 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Urban Health Equity, Knowledge Management, World Health Organization Knowledge Management Strategy, Urban HEART, Knowledge Stakeholders. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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3 |
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Last Page:
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10 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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Between indicating Urban Health Equity (UHE) challenges and acting towards equity is still an immense interval. Despite all progresses, the value of knowledge to improve the quality of life, welfare and equity has not been recognized by individuals, communities and entire populations. This is caused by lack of an appropriate integration of Knowledge Management (KM) in UHE tools and models e.g. Urban HEART. In this context, World Health Organization (WHO) defines the role and functionality of KM to help and promote bridge the know-do gap, particularly the gap between knowing and acting for Urban Health (UH). To deploy KM for enhancing of UHE the most significant and principal aspects are improving the access to UH information, creating of knowledge-based resolutions, sharing and transferring of experiences, best practices and lessons learned, leveraging of knowledge society and sustaining the UH-knowledge society. Besides different accounts of KM, fundamentally KM enables and fosters UH society to capture, refine, organize, store, share and transfer explicit/implicit knowledge. This KM-lifecycle is applied in strategic and operational levels. In this paper, the main challenges of UHE are reviewed, and due to the deficiencies of UHE assessment and response tool-Urban HEART- a conceptual model of applying Knowledge Management for Urban Health Equity (KMUHE) is introduced. A unique part of this work is to clarify the functionality of KM to promote to bridge know-do gap by identifying three types of UHE knowledge-stakeholders as global, national and local. Despite the similarity of KM-lifecycle, the processed knowledge differs from the value, significance and uncertainty for each type of stakeholders. Thus KMUHE empowers and reinforces UHE particularly by integration of KM and Urban HEART, compensates the theoretical and practical lacks of Urban HEART, and promotes to bridge know-do gap of UHE. |
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